unpleasant and unfair; likely to offend somebody or make them jealous 讨厌而不公正的;易引起反感的;招人嫉妒的 We were in the invidious position of having to choose whether to break the law or risk lives. 我们处于左右为难的窘境,不知是要违法还是要拿生命冒险。 It would be invidious to single out any one person to thank. 单独感谢任何一个人都易引起反感。 Union leaders called the new rules ‘invidious and divisive’. 工会领导人称新规定“令人反感和分裂”。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryInvidious is used with these nouns:- position
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin invidiosus, from invidia, from invidere ‘regard maliciously, grudge’, from in- ‘into’ + videre ‘to see’.